Death Valley 2010

[trout]

Beatty, Nevada Moto Trip - March 2010
Why Beatty:
Thoughts of a Moto trip started brewing way back in September last fall when an email went out saying we just had to do a moto trip during Spring Break as he had 2 weeks off. Problem is most of the back country in BC or pretty much anywhere in the Pacific Northwest is still mostly under snow in March. We started thinking about heading south for a road trip. A short time later Pete was flying over the Death Valley area a few hundred kms northwest of Vegas. He could clearly see piles of roads all over the desert floor. Some of these were dead straight (probably put in for mining access), and lots of other twisty-turny little roads that followed canyons way up into the hills and beyond into other valleys.
TopoMap USA confirmed there were many back roads in this area. A spring trip started to hatch, time to fill in the blanks... A quick Google search left a lot to be desired in places to stay around this area with Death Valley being quite expensive and limiting, other options not available but research kept me coming back to a little town just outside Death Valley on the east side, just across the border into Nevada. It was game on.
Many hours checking out Google and working on TopoMap and 5 or 6 GPS routes were built in varying distances from 100 kms or so to over 300. These routes would take us into some very diverse areas and riding conditions. Also, riding around this area would have us going from almost 300 feet below sea level to over 6300 feet. EFI is going to be nice.:cool:

Starting off in Seattle - more to follow

[trout]

OFFLOADING BIKES AND GEAR AND READY FOR OUR FIRST RIDE TO CHLORIDE CLIFFS
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The riders left to right:
•Dave – BMW G650 XChallenge
•Doug – Honda CRF 230 (big bored and street legal)
•Chris – KLX-400
•Pat – Husky TE 250
•Pete – Husky TE 510
•Norm – DRZ-200
•Jay – DRZ-400
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[trout]

Day One: Chloride Cliffs, Ride distance 135 km
•Arrived 10:30 am after a 22 + hour drive – too early to check into the motel.
•Hoots and Doug arrived from Vegas at 10:45 AM (we had been texting since Tonopah to try and match our ETA’s as these guys were driving up from Vegas.
•Can`t check in.. no problem. Offload moto`s, pull our gear on and we were riding before noon
•Left town westward and rode out to Rhyolite Ghost town for our first visit to the desert.
•From there we tried to ride Titus Canyon loop, but it was closed from bad weather last week.
•Quick reassess of the GPS and off we went, heading Southwest across the Amargosa Valley to Chloride Cliffs
•Sweet doubletrack twisty riding climbing out of the valley up to the top of the cliffs overlooking Death Valley where we stopped for lunch.
•Lots of cool old mine shafts and tailings in this area, the vertical shafts had wire meshing over them (so you don’t accidentally fall in)
•We met a couple of hikers way up there, quite far from the road.
•Headed North out of the Chloride Cliffs area out to the Daylight Pass, then East back to Beatty
•Ride distance 135 km – not bad for a day that was pretty much icing (we didn`t know if we could ride today).
•Returned from our ride, checked into our motel – the Atomic Inn
•Dinner and beers at the Sourdough Saloon
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[eagleguy]

By any chance have you heard of the Lippincott mine rd.? It is one way to get into the Race track from the south. I never had time or a ridin buddy to get to it, but it sounds like it would be a great challenge. I found out about it on desert usa. Have a great time

[trout]

Yes, Â*indeed I have heard of it. We did that ride on Day 5. Pics and route description to follow. If anyone wants GPS tracks for any of our rides, PM me.

trout

[trout]

Day Two: Beatty South ride, Ride distance 205 km
•Breakfast at the Beatty Casino (not recommended), back to motel and geared up.
•Rode West right from our motel, out to the Beatty Transfer Station, then South to the small airport and continued down the Amargosa Valley, eventually swinging around to the East and across #95
•Hopped onto a Moto Singletrack for a short while, but much to Chris`s disgust we moved back onto our GPS’d route as the singletrack was heading off in a different direction than we wanted to go (GPS route).
•We continued South-East following the Vegas-Reno off road race course route through some big whoop and rough sections with good sized washouts where we found a huge race truck tire, front suspension pieces, brake line and hub assembly etc at the side of the track – apparently one of the whoops was just too big!
•Coffee break at Steve’s pass
•Continued south – realized the full route was going to be too long so we decided to take one of the next west roads back out to #95, we were going to try and find 40 mile wash, but found another road out before it
•Crossed #95 to West side again, got back on our GPS track heading for “BIG DUNE�
•We all played around the sand dunes for about ½ or ¾’s of an hour high marking the big sand bowls and generally trying to learn how to ride in sand (which we never do really). I think we all ended up laying our bikes down at least once... figured we better keep going before we burned up all our fuel or someone got hurt. � It was good fun though!
•Hopped onto Race Track Road (up the east side of Big Dune), then curved around west and eventually south to Echo Canyon. Very rough doubletrack road – lot’s of chunder rock. It was hot (for us northerners) and we were getting tired and hungry. Lunch stop up in the canyon climbing to the summit.
•Finally over the top, and we started down Echo Canyon. One crux, but great riding.
•Popped out at Sea Level at the junction just south of Furnace Creek Resort, then rolled in for gas, bought Hoots a beer (it was his birthday today), then “slabbed it� north on #190 taking the Daylight Pass cut-off, climbed back out of Death Valley and back across the Amargosa Valley to Beatty
•Dinner at Ensenada Grill. Highly recommended!

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Big Dune - first time on a dune for most of us

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No need for kick stands

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Lunch stop heading into Echo Canyon
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PM me for GPX file

[trout]

Day three: Beatty North ride, Ride distance 152 km
•Headed north right out of town on our planned out GPS route, riding right from our motel
•Opening “entrance exam� doubletrack heading North, then East from town, lots of climbing
•Lost and found Norm’s licence plate, along with a near miss on flat tire with 3� spike through a side knob
•Swung around North and got onto the Vegas-Reno race course again
•In one section the route braided out into 2 and 3 parallel doubletrack lines that we were booting along at about 90 kms/hr along. We all got a little frisky before shutting it down for morning coffee.
•The race tracks narrowed down to a single doubletrack across what appeared to be tundra with snow dusting on it, not sure of the material (salt or Chloride, Alkaline, Borax or??) Hooray for GPS tracks as it kept us on route as the route got smaller and smaller and finally petered out after meeting the highway and fence.
•Luckily we found a gate south of us where we got through and back onto the east side of the road.
•We rolled past the Shady Lady Brothel, then north past some old abandoned buildings and crossed over #95 at the #72 junction –a pit area for the Las Vegas-Reno race, heading east we found a great spot for lunch behind a gravel pit (after roosting up some very creative water bars)
•Our GPS track routed us along an old rail bed that took us down the west side of a dried up lake bed (super flat, long, light brown clay) and for the next ½ hour there was full on drags with Hoots and Chris going head to head, Dave and PSS etc. Best (or most entertaining anyway) would have been Norm vs Doug – with Doug using car drag logic and revving and dropping the clutch. Picture stall—wheelie—stall—wheelie etc etc.... Pretty entertaining. Oh PS, apparently a Husky 510 can outpull a BMW 650. Top speed recorded 138 km per hour.
•Again we finally gathered the group up and left before someone got hurt (or we ran out of fuel) �
•South along the rail bed, where Pat found a pretty deep washout and skidded and fell right into it.... then as it was still quite rough we cut up to another track showing on our GPS uphill and west of us. This took us back onto the Race Course where we found one big whoop section all the way to the back door, north entrance into Death Valley Park where our two-track immediately turned into beautiful doubletrack riding right all the way back into Rhyolite where we caught some late afternoon light for some fun pictures.
•We looped through the back door of Rhyolite and hit the old gravel road right back to the west end of Beatty (so almost this entire day was off road). Fun day, lots of great riding!!
•Back to Ensenada Grill for dinner

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Riding one handed and taking video with handheld camera sort of worked. Need to buy a helmet cam.


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Here is our route in GPX

[trout]

Day four (our biggest ride day): Death Valley South GPS track route, Ride distance 304 km,
Note: 15,700 vertical feet of climbing today.
•Started early and shuttled with our Moto’s to the ranger station at Stovepipe Wells in the middle of Death Valley (west of Beatty on #190)
•Offloaded our bikes, geared up and headed west on pavement then turned south-west on Wildrose Canyon Road, climbing all the way up and over the summit then down Wildrose Canyon into Panamint Valley
•Planned GPS track took us up Tuber Canyon which was going to bring us down Jail Canyon. After climbing for a while we got stumped as the connector we were hoping to use was closed due to re-vegetation program.
•We returned back down Tuber, then west down Wildrose, all the way down to the Panamint Valley Road
•Headed south then east as we popped onto Indian Springs Road on east side of a semi dried up lakebed, all the way down to Ballarat where we turned due east up Pleasant Canyon road up to Claire Camp for lunch, our high point up there at 4600 feet
•As we had planned this as an out and back, we turned back down same route dropping down to Balarat again and then continued South to Redlands Spring Canyon (where I had put the GPS track through) but immediately ran into trouble again as it was closed due to a huge mine site at the mouth of this canyon – no trespassing!
•We were just reassessing our GPS plans when we met 3 motos coming the other way that had just come through Goler Wash, (which was my plan as it connected back to the original route) so off we went continued south down to this route where we headed up Coyote Canyon 2nd Road and up into Goler Wash
•We stopped at Newman`s Cabin, signed the guestbook, had a quick coffee break and continued on.
•Continued east, then joined up into a north route up into Butte Valley (now back on the original GPS planned track), then we turned south-east down Warm Spring Canyon out to West Side Road in Death Valley.
•During this last descent Doug hit a washout on his side of the road that was probably 4` deep—almost died!! Luckily now that he was 3 or 4 days into lots of off road he pulled it off ending back on the road and nearly missing me... maybe the only damage might have been some slightly soiled undies on his part.
•Once we hit the valley floor we knew we had lots of distance still to go so we headed North on Westside Road straight up the middle of Death Valley where we were promptly hit by a crazy wind storm headed right at us (gusts of up to 50 kms hr)
•We crossed to the east side of Death Valley at the Devils Golf Course and onto the Badwater Road north.
•We pulled into Furnace Creek for fuel (station already closed, but luckily a few of the Visa cards worked
•Slabbed it north on 190 where we got hit by a wicked storm (think mean snowstorm but with mud flying through the air). A crosswind gust coming down the valley at probably 80 kms per hour blew a few of us right across the road into oncoming lane – luckily there is very little traffic. At one point visibility went right to zero for probably 30 seconds.... After stopping completely, it was all I could to blindly idle right off the road and into the ditch in case someone was still trying to drive – After probably 1 minute it eased off, allowing us to clean our mud covered goggles, and pull back out on the road.
•Within minutes conditions were better and we headed west at the junction, past the sand dunes and into Stovepipe Wells right at dusk. Loaded the bikes back onto the trailer with what little light that was left then cracked the well deserved bevies waiting for us in the cooler. While we were sitting there enjoying the warm clear post-storm air an air force jet started doing hot laps in the dark above us, diving towards the valley, then pulling full vertical acceleration before rolling out into a big circle route and repeating his flight plan. We pulled the pin when the local Ranger saw our lights and rolled in to check on what we were doing. After we explained we were just returning from a 12 hour ride and heading out within minutes he declared `sounds reasonable` and rolled along to boot someone else out of the parking lot.
•It was a dark shuttle back to Beatty, dinner at Sourdough again as nothing else was open. Beer tasted good :hb:

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Pleasant Canyon Road

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Claire Camp for lunch

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Jail House

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Goler Wash

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Chris and Pete heading back down into Death Valley and towards the desert storm.

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[cactusreid]

very neat!! reminds me a lot of baja in places.

[TroUtman_888]

Great report Dave.

What's this thing one of you is standing on? Bike catcher:f:

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[trout]

It's an old mine shaft. I was just making sure that the safety net was safe just in case some idiot thought it was a trampoline. It was safe:clap: I guess too many people were falling in and dropping to their death so they decided to cover with cable net.

[wjm]

Keep the pictures and ride reports coming, great work.

Bill

[cactusreid]

THAT'S QUITE THE TESTING PROCEDURE YOU HAVE-JEEESSSH !!!

[dmorrow]

As one who was there - it was at least 100 feet straight down, we dropped a rock to see how deep it was. In addition to our concern for our friend there was also the issue of how to get his bike back without a rider...............................

[trout]

At first I thought it was a hammock

[beaver steve]

Cool, might have to put Death Valley on our to-do list.

[trout]

Two of us have done the Baja and that's what we kept saying during every ride, "This is just like Baja" (minus all the cattle).

[trout]

Day five: Saline Valley—Teakettle Junction, Ride distance 143 km
•This was an early start and our longest shuttle—we headed west through Amargosa Valley, Death Valley and even Panamint Valley before parking at the South entrance of Saline Valley Road...

•Our day was suddenly made WAY BETTER when just after off loading our motos a F-16 jetfighter flying low saw us, looped around and dove straight towards us wagging his wings on the approach – passed overhead at what seemed like 200` then pulled into a 80 degree vertical climb angle and hit the full afterburners... roaring away at about 500 knots and about 200 decibels! It was rad... we were all left there cheering and yelling. We figured he was a Moto rider and was just giving us a great big high five his way.

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•Norm decided to stick to pavement today (as his little DRZ-200 is suffering after the big rides over the past days). The rest of the group headed north on Saline (ignoring the 2 Road Closed signs)...

•We dropped off the main gravel road onto a sweet doubletrack through a Joshua Tree Cactus forest loop that got progressively more fun as it got narrower, and a bit more technical. Probably one of my trip highlights as you just don`t get any riding like that back at home. Trees yes, Joshua Cactus Tree... no. Again if I hadn`t told you before, the GPS rules...

•We popped back onto the main and cruised up to South Pass road. Our GPS route took us east then North up Hunter Mountain but we ran into snow covering the complete road at about 6300` We may have continued had it been just a short patch, but it was as far as we could see and the pass went all the way up to 7500` over the next 10 kms or so.

•After quick consult of the GPS we decided to retreat down South Pass, head north on Saline Valley, then up and across the Lippincott Pass road, popping out a couple of kms south of `the racetrack` which is another dried up lakebed.

•On route we stopped to chat with a fellow out working with youth that were traveling by foot from camp to camp cross country out there... wow, harsh traveling.

•Leaving there heading North once again we were buzzed by 2 jets heading north up the Saline Valley at 3 or 400 feet above us at about 500 knots. I was just accelerating out of a corner when the sound hit me I just about shit myself and thought I had blown up my bike! I didn`t know what the &%�& had happened and it wasn`t till I saw the F-18 twin engine jet swooping down the valley ahead of me that I knew what had happened.

•We hung a right at the pile of rocks headed across the valley before the long technical climb up to the Lippincott Pass summit.

•Our destination goal for this route was the `moving rocks` zone in the south-east corner of this lakebed. As no motos are allowed on the lake we parked our bikes and walked the half mile or so across the lake......... tough in moto boots and gear, but worth the walk. This phenomena is very cool. There are rocks at the end of long tracks looking like they have been pushed along by the wind, but they are all in different directions. Pretty weird, but very cool.

•After returning to our Moto’s we continued north up the west side of `the racetrack` lakebed, and rolled the last 10 kms to Teakettle Junction where we planned a U-turn. This was the farthest North on our route today.

•As we couldn`t make our planned loop (because of the snow) we retraced our route, back down the racecourse, back over Lippincott Pass and back down to Saline Valley, and all the way back out.

•Back to the trucks, we loaded up for our long shuttle back home where we chowed down at the Ensenada Grill once again (as we got there just in time to order dinner before they closed).

•Over dinner planned for a last day early AM ride as Titus Canyon is now open.

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Pat resting his bike...again:tup:

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We decided it was aliens who moved the rocks:ted:

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Infamous Tea Kettle Junction

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End of the day picture with Dave sporting the highly recommended Ogio flight vest and a big grin:tup:

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Taken on the drive home

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[MasterMarine]

Hello all,
I just joined the group and am dragging up an old thread from the past.

I was there at the Newman cabin probably 30 minutes before your group. I was checking out Stella's cabin when you went by and caught up to you in that crazy storm just before hitting pavement. That was one of the craziest experiences in my life. I sure was glad it was not raining too much when I was zipping up the West Side road! Do you have anymore pictures of that storm? It was a trip when I entered it and it looked like it had snowed everywhere! I was so glad to get back to camp at Furnace Creek.

Great pictures! We road about 700 miles there in DV during our week there.

MasterMarine

[chico]

Hi Master Marine
I was part of the group you pasted and I to think that was one of the wildest storms Ive every had the pleasure of ride in. Just before we got to furnace creek we got hit with a huge blast of wind,rocks,bushes. rain and sand, it took us all off the road you literally could not see two feet in front you.Death valley was a unique place to ride always something differrent around every corner.GREAT RIDE

Excellent ride report trouty good job

[MasterMarine]

Sorry about the pasting, I was really surprised to come up upon your group as visibility at the time was almost nil. I was tired of being in that storm and was moving at a bit of a faster pace than your group. It was a long day and I was ready to get out of the weather! It was crazy how the cars were just stopping in the highway.

I was surprised to see the Husky TE250. I bet that thing was wound out down there.

MasterMarine